"Clearly, we respect people's privacy, trust, and security needs, and we're going to give them—through partnerships and by doing the best job ourselves—the ability to feel that level of comfort," said Sanjay Parthasarathy, Microsoft's vice president of Strategy and Business Development. "This does, hopefully, alleviate some of \[people's\] concerns."

The addition of security services in .NET My Services is largely a public relations ploy at this point: Microsoft realizes that the biggest roadblock to .NET's success is a lack of consumer acceptance. By adopting a security backbone at this early stage, the company demonstrates that it's serious about security.

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